User`s guide

Chapter 14: Playing/Selecting Track Material 161
Separate Edit and Timeline
Selections
Pro Tools lets you unlink the Edit and
Timeline selections. In doing so, you can
make a selection within a track for editing
purposes that is distinct from the selection
in the Timeline (which determines the
playback and recording range).
By default, the Edit and Timeline selections
are linked. In this mode, selecting in a
track’s playlist (an Edit selection) also de-
fines the play and record range (the Time-
line selection).
To unlink the Edit and Timeline selections:
■ Deselect Operations > Link Edit and
Timeline Selection.
– or –
In the upper left of the Edit window, click
the Linked Selections button so it becomes
unhighlighted.
If you are working with a film or video
scene, you may want to unlink the Edit and
Timeline selections to work with material
that is at a different location than the cur-
rent play range. The scene you’re working
with (defined by the Timeline selection)
may require some sound effects and you
can go to another location in the session to
find and audition them. Edit selections can
be played (choose Operations > Play Edit
Selection) without disrupting the current
Timeline selection. Once the desired mate-
rial is found, you can then go back to the
Timeline selection and place them within
the context of the scene.
Figure 10 illustrates another reason you’d
want to unlink the Edit and Timeline selec-
tions. In this example, the Timeline selec-
tion sets a range to be looped on playback,
while a MIDI region (residing within the
loop) is selected for editing purposes. Dur-
ing playback, the Edit selection can be
nudged, quantized, or transposed while the
loop plays back completely independent
and uninterrupted.
While you could theoretically do this with
the Edit and Timeline selections linked, as
soon as playback is stopped, the playback
range would then be updated to that of the
more recent edit range.
Playback/Edit Markers
Timeline selections are displayed in the
Ruler with Playback Markers, which appear
as blue arrows (red when recording). In ad-
dition, there are Pre- and Post-Roll Flags
(which are green when enabled) indicating
the location for pre/post-roll.
Linked Selections button, disabled
Figure 10. Edit and Timeline selections unlinked
Playback Markers with Pre/Post-Roll Flags
Figure 11. Edit Markers